| Baseball Prospectus 2010 |  | Author: Baseball Prospectus
Publisher: Wiley
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The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business The essential guide to the 2010 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you're a fan or fantasy player-or both-you won't be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2010 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team. - Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams
- Projects each players stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated)
- From Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball
Now in its fifteenth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind. Top Ten Ways Your Friends Will Know You Haven't Read Baseball Prospectus 2010
10. You think signing Jason Bay for $66 million was a great move, and wish Omar Minaya had gone harder after Bengie Molina and Jarrod Washburn. 9. You drafted Derek Jeter and Derrek Lee early in your fantasy league this year. 8. You can't imagine why we'd need their new pitching stat--SIERA--when we already have ERA. 7. You think this might be Houston's year. 6. You've never heard of Jesus Montero, Jason Heyward, or Mike Stanton. 5. You've heard of Montero, Heyward, and Stanton, but without BP's new "MLB %" playing time projection, you overdrafted them. 4. You think your team will be better than the Yankees this year. 3. You're not bleary-eyed from staying up all night reading hundreds of pages of smart stats and witty commentary. 2. The name Matt Wieters doesn't make you giggle a little. 1. You're Brian Sabean.
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 The usual good stuff, and this year it has an index! February 18, 2010
Hal Jordan (USA)
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
I'm giving it five stars, but my feelings are mixed. Given how much I look forward to it and how quickly I read it, and given I think it is the best guide out there to players and teams, five stars are merited. But, as always, I wish they took another couple of weeks and gave the book a thorough editing. Although I didn't find any errors as gross as last year's omission of the index, there is an unevenness in the writing that indicates that they are publishing what is essentially a first draft. For instance, consider this comment on Travis Ishikawa: "someone whose threat to right-handed pitching rated up there with a girlfriend's mom: inconvenient but unavoidable, so don't slip while she's in the room." I've read it four times and I have no idea what it means. Is he trying to say that Ishikawa (who bats left) does or doesn't hit right-handed pitchers well? If the book had an editor that sentence would never have made it to publication. Maybe the rush to publication has something to do with the timing of fantasy baseball drafts. Whatever the reason, year after year the Prospectus is less professional than it should be.
One other beef: Steven Goldman contributes a preface celebrating the Prospectus's fifteenth year of publication. A significant milestone, I guess, so some horn tooting is in order. But for a group that is so hard on the people who run major league teams, some acknowledgement of the Prospectus's own fubars would have been nice: The year they published on really low-grade paper and the print was smeared, the year the adjusted ERAs were totally bollixed up, the year the data on comparables had no relation to the text discussion, last year's omission of an index, and so on. And then there's Goldman's evaluation of Bill James. Now I understand that many in the analyst community are tired of genuflecting before the altar of St. Bill. But Bill James created the business these guys are in. Before the Bill James Baseball Abstract there was no market for this kind of commentary. It wasn't that the market was small or underdeveloped, there simply was no market for this kind of commentary published by a major firm and sold at places like Barnes & Noble. James created that market. Here is everything Goldman has to say about James in his discussion of the pre-Prospectus world: "Bill James came out with a book once a year, but skipped 1989 and then experimented with various flawed formats before disappearing altogether after 1995." This is roughly the equivalent of summing up Babe Ruth's impact on baseball by saying: "Ruth hit a lot of home runs for awhile, but then he got old and fat, his production declined, and he retired." If you read the whole of Goldman's preface, he is claiming for the Prospectus the role that was actually played by James's Baseball Abstract.
Ok, no more carping. If you like baseball enough to be thinking of buying this book, then you should buy it. You won't find a more complete or entertaining evaluation of players and teams. The book could be better, but even as it is, it's the best out there.
best annual baseball publication February 24, 2010
Jeff R. Johnson (Milwaukee)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The annual Baseball Prospectus is, IMO, the single best annual baseball publication available (and there's some dynamite competition - thank you Bill James and other sabermetricians). Lots of information and articles for the baseball junkie to read and digest here. Mine arrived the other day and I've been reading it non-stop!
A must read for every baseball season! March 17, 2010
Regi K. King (Charlotte, NC)
Baseball Prospectus puts-out a great book each season. Great insight and statistical analysis for players and teams. Very helpful for those in fantasy baseball leagues too.
Book for the casually serious fan March 26, 2010
PCorNotPC!ThatIsTheQuestion (Ithaca, NY)
If you are serious about baseball, this book gives an insiders look with strong statistics but is readily accessible to someone who is not a math geek.
Mind-Boggling Baseball Bible March 30, 2010
N. Bilmes (Vernon, CT United States)
BP 2010 delivers the goods. Projections for every player based on the famed PECOTA scores; mini-essays on each player of relevance in the majors and most from the minors; mega-essays for each major league team that delve into the philosophy and player development programs of all the teams. Even, better, the list of the top-100 prospects in the game at the back of the book.
I read the entire book over the course of 3 weeks, as there is too much information to be absorbed from a fast reading. The book has been on the desk next to me during all of my fantasy baseball drafts, and when I need to go looking for upside in the late rounds, that prospect list is invaluable.
This year's version has far fewer typos than last year's!
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